LAS VEGAS: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.
But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:
184. A former criminologist living in a retirement community has busted an aged care worker who was stealing from her.
After being regularly robbed by staff, she took matters into her own hands and set up a hidden camera to catch the thief.
When the disabled 75-year-old attempted to report the incident to the retirement community company, they dismissed her claims.
But the resident took her evidence of the thefts to police and had the aged care worker charged with theft and burglary.